Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-07-08
WEATHER AND CROPS.
The Weekly Report of the Signal
Service, Favorable for the Harvest.
Chinch- Bugs Doing Bad Work in Local
ltieS.-Rain Does Much Benefit.
Signal Service Bull,tn.

WASHINGTON, July 5.-The following is
.he weekly westher-erop bulletin issued
by the signal Office today:
TEMPERATURES.
During the week ending July >, 1887,
the weather has been warmer than ussl in
the northern states, the average daily ex-
cess being generally less than > degrees,
while thro1gout the southern states il was
cooler than usual, the sverage daily tenn
pelsture ranging from to : degrees be-
low the normal. Throughout the cotton
belt during the week the daily average
was about degrees cooler than usual.
1he average daily temperature for the
season from Jan. to JEly =, 1887, differs
less than degree from the normal in
all agricultural districts, except in the
southern states, which the thermal excess
previously reported in the cotton region
has slightly reduced and the deficiency
on the south Atlantic coast slightly aug
mentea.
RAINFALL.
During the week ths rainfall has been
slightly IN excess in the greater portion
OF the cotton region, and generally from
the Mississippi westward over the eastern
slope of the Rocky mountains. Large
e1cesses for the week, ranging from three
TO ten inches, are reported from souther rn
Georgia and thence westward to Texas,
and almost daily rains occurred in the
Mississippi valley from the gulf states
northward to Wisconsin and Minnesota.
thus ending the drought previously exist
ing In portions of the upper Mississippi
valley.
Heavy rams are reported this morn.
ing from the states Of the Mississippi
valley, and are indicated for the cotton
region and the corn, tobacco, and wheat
regions west of the Alleghenies. From
Michigan and the Ohio valley eastward
to the Atlantic coast there was less rain
than usual for the week, the deficiency
amounting to about one inch.
The large deficiency in rainfall for tho
season from Jan. l to July over the
cotton region is largely .he result of a
deficiency Of rainfall during the winter
and early spring months.
Considered with reference to the m onths
of May and June, the rainfall in the great,
er portion of the cotton region amounted
to from 20 to 80 per cent. of the
average amount of rainfall for
period. During the same months
less than 80 per cent. of the average
amount of rainfall occurred in the lower
Ohio valley, Indiana, Illinois, Southern
Wisconsin, Iowa, and Southeast Mime
sofa, Rains which have occurred during
the past week, and which continue this
morning, are timely, and will probably
improve the condition of :he staple crops
GENERAL REMARKS.
Reports from the cotton regions in
dicate that the weather durisg the past
week, owing to the abundant and we'll
distributed showers, has bsen favorable
to cotton, although its growth may have
been slightly retarded by cool weather.
The weather has been favorable for har.
vesting of wheat and hay from the lake
region and the Ohio valley east of the
Atlantic coast, while in the Missouri and
Mississippi valleys showers have delayed
harvesting in those sections.
The weather has been especisly favor
able in the corn region and the recent
rains have extended over the greater por-
tlon of the corn belt. Excellent growing
weather is reported from New England
and the middle Atlantic states, where a
large hay crop has been secured.